The East German Stasi and British MI6 clash as the discovery of a body points to a WW2 war crime, in the new Cold War thriller by the award-winning author ofStasi Child– for fans of Tom Rob Smith and Philip Kerr.

Dresden, East Germany, 1980 – A man’s body is found buried in concrete at a building site in the new town district. When People’s Police homicide captain Karin Muller arrives at the scene, she discovers that all of the body’s identifiable features have been removed – including its fingertips.

The deeper Muller digs, the more the Stasi begin to hamper her investigations. She soon realises that this crime is just one part of a clandestine battle between two secret services – the Stasi of East Germany and Britain’s MI6 – to control the truth behind one of the deadliest events of World War II.

The Stasi Gamebrilliantly fictionalises the true story of how Britain’s wartime leaders justifed the fire-bombing of German city of Dresden, which many have since condemned as a war crime.